Meeting of NJIT Self Study Chairs
and Co-Chairs:
Update, Lockdown, Team Visit
RASC Members: Robert Barat, Edward Bishof, Joel Bloom, Fadi
Deek, Perry Deess, Norbert Elliot, Tony Howell, Katia Passerini,
Marguerite Schneider, Judith Redling, Richard Sweeney. Ewa
Solarz (Assistant)
February 1, 2012
Changes within NJIT
Changes within New Jersey
A Science and Technology Research
University for the 21st Century
19 % (n = 72) of the faculty and
instructional staff (n = 376) were
involved in the self-study
Working Groups
Hosting the Team Chair and the Visiting
Team: April 1-4, 2012
Lockdown:
February 12, 2012 Team Visit:
April 1-4, 2012
Preparing Evidence for the Visit
• What is our mission, how has it driven our actions, and
how do we assess those actions in terms of mission
fulfillment?
• What is the level of mission penetration and
consistency?
• Are the resources available now to support mission
fulfillment?
• What plans are in place to support mission fulfillment in
the future?
Evidence of Accountability for the Team Visit
• Accreditation Board for
Engineering and Technology
(ABET)
• Association to Advance
Collegiate Schools of
Business (AACSB), and the
National Architectural
Accrediting Board (NAAB)
• National Architectural
Accrediting Board (NAAB)
• College and School Strategic
Plans
Accounting for Intuitional Context:
Standards 1-7
• Review of the
Planning Process
• Accountability for
Strategic Planning
Accounting for Educational Effectiveness,
Standards 8-14
• Review of the
Process of
Curricular Review
and Curricular
Transformation
• Accountability for
Educational
Effectiveness
Final Steps: February 1, 2012
to February 12, 2012
• Review print version of A Science and Technology
Research University for the 21st Century
– Cannot add text without removal
– Check recommendations
– Ensure currency of information through fall of 2011
• Signal key links for HTML version of document
– Material for public access
– Movement from digital archive to public access
• Check digital database
– Key documents in place
Final Steps: February 1, 2012
to February 12, 2012
• Prepare page briefing documents as needed
– Content: Key information
– Design: Purpose, Scene, Act, Agency
Next Steps: February 12, 2012 to
April 1, 2012
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Continue working with key
shareholders (faculty and
instructional staff, students,
administrators, boards)
Prepare master schedule for
class, laboratory, and studio
visits
Supply additional documents
for hypermedia
Strengthen podcast series
Prepare posters for each
standard
Challenges: Identification of Barriers
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Mission: Meet challenges of level of
state funding, rapidly changing
professional landscape, new student
demographics, and emerging
political currents
Resource allocation: Strengthen
interrelationships among
institutional, operational, and unitlevel planning goals
Institutional resources: Improve
awareness of processes associated
with tracking, monitoring, and
reporting budget allocations that
impact human resources,
technological resources, and
facilities
Leadership: Continue shared
governance initiative
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Institutional Assessment:
Deepen use of benchmark
universities
Retention: Increase first-year
retention and graduation rate
through attention to a common
first-year experience and GUR
delivery
Student Support Services:
Integrate into academic programs
Faculty: Ensure success with
Phase I of hiring plan; advance
diversity in women faculty and
instructional staff
Student Learning Assessment:
Deploy the existing model and
strengthening the culture of
measurement and accountability
Resolution: Capacity of Design
• Assessment of institutional context and educational
effectiveness documents that NJIT has in place the
systems necessary to ensure mission articulation.
• Through its mission of service, education, research, and
economic development, NJIT has focused its policies and
investments on vibrant activities that preserve the New
Jersey’s critical resources.
The Road Ahead
 A collaborative process
 Preparing for visit
 A documentary process
 Strengthening the evidence
base
 A generative process
 Implementing permanent,
sustainable change
Discussion